Tenor banjo scale length

Stewart-MacDonald lists a normal tenor banjo scale length as 22.250", though they can be much shorter, even as short as 19”. A standard Gibson five-string banjo scale length is 26.250”, which is actually longer than a normal six-string guitar.

1. What is the scale length of a plectrum banjo?
2. What is the scale length of an Irish tenor banjo?
3. What is standard tuning for a tenor banjo?
4. What is the scale length of a 5-string banjo?

What is the scale length of a plectrum banjo?

The four-string plectrum banjo is a standard banjo without the short drone string. It usually has 22 frets on the neck and a scale length of 26 to 28 inches, and was originally tuned C3 G3 B3 D4.

What is the scale length of an Irish tenor banjo?

While it's perfectly fine to use a 17-fret banjo with a 20 to 21 inch scale, the vast majority of top-level and/or professional players use a 19-fret tenor banjo with a scale length between 22 and 23 inches.

What is standard tuning for a tenor banjo?

Click here to learn what a fifth is. This relates to the tenor banjo because standard tuning for a tenor banjo is tuned the same as a viola/mandola (C, G, D, A). Irish players often tune their tenor banjos also in fifths, but one octave below a violin/mandolin (G, D, A, E).

What is the scale length of a 5-string banjo?

Both styles of five string banjo have scale lengths ranging from 26 to 27 inches, and 22 frets. Illogical as it may seem, the five string banjo is the first banjo style which developed as the banjo came of age in the 19th century.